I'm wishing I had time to go on etsy... i think i want to do steampunk pirate for the #SydneySyders pirate party on saturday... but i think i will just have to do some scrounging and see what I turn up... cos lets face it, nothing i order online will be here by friday LOL

so this means i have to do some shopping..... going to do as much as i can in burwood after work on thursday, and then have to get up early and go second hand shopping on saturday....

I was just going to go as a basic pirate wench, but i was thinking it over, and now is a chance for me to have some fun with the steampunk fashion.. i've always been facinated by it LOL I just wish I had more time to actually make something.... but I work full time, and i couldnt hand sew something with so little time...so I think it will be 'found objects' only. last night, i was reading the latest issue of Fiend, which has a steampunk themethis issue... it got the imagination pumping, and now i have all these ideas... i just wish i had time or money to do something about them LOL I love design, but i just dont have the resources to make things anymore.... i may get a new sewing machine with my tax return... i've only ever had 2nd hand machines, and i always blow them up... i kid you not! im up past 15 these days... i think im cursed... if its a new one, atleast it would be under warranty anyway, i think i want to have a play with steampunk...

My ideas... i think if i find a sleeveless top, and wear a blousey top underneath it, that should do for a top... and wear a long skirt... will look out for something, but i have some that may work... so aside from the top, all i need to find is a big loose belt, a sword or toy gun that looks kinda steampunk, and some sort of victorian looking jewellery... then do my hair up in a vintage look... I wish I had some time to convert a toy to look like a steampunk blunderbuss... or make a cool cutless... but i just dont have the time... it will be fun tho!!!

i like playing dressups too much...







A definition of steampunk from wikipedia:
Steampunk is a sub-genre of fantasy and speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or real technological developments like the computer occurring at an earlier date. Other examples of steampunk contain alternate history-style presentations of "the path not taken" of such technology as dirigibles, analog computers, or digital mechanical computers (such as Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine); these frequently are presented in an idealized light, or with a presumption of functionality.

Steampunk is often associated with cyberpunk and shares a similar fanbase and theme of rebellion, but developed as a separate movement (though both have considerable influence on each other). Apart from time period and level of technological development, the main difference between cyberpunk and steampunk is that steampunk settings usually tend to be less obviously dystopian than cyberpunk, or lack dystopian elements entirely.


Some steampunk on film: hayao miyazaki films (love him! check out Howl's Moving Castle, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Laputa: Castle in the Sky ), van helsing, doctor who (some eps), firefly (mal is awesome!), stardust, chitty chitty bang bang, wild wild west, the time machine (I love the 1960 film!), - there is so much more out there......... i wont tell you them all...


some deviations i admire which have a steampunk feel to them..